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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfigure.

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Examples

  • But there was the fleeting, terrible thought of 'what if she stays this way? what if this disfigures her?'

    Peace In A Dyson | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Like a child that has not yet predictably learned that putting their hand on the stove is how they get burned, unbroken loyalty to that line of self-inflicted, limited awareness repeatedly scars, disfigures and deeply pains you.

    Vaishali: Self-Awareness: The Key to Owning and Operating the Human Experience Vaishali 2010

  • The result was the infamous checkerboard arrangement of section ownership that still disfigures maps of the west.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • And in another narration, "Whenever kindness is in a thing it adorns it, and whenever it is removed from anything, it disfigures it."

    Imam Khalid Latif: Reflecting On A Month Of Reflection Imam Khalid Latif 2011

  • The result was the infamous checkerboard arrangement of section ownership that still disfigures maps of the west.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • It is simply a fact that this reality disfigures subsequent experiences of pleasure — and not just in the sexual context.

    The First Cut | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Heller mocks Ziegler, but it is a press secretary's imperative, the abdication of responsibility, that disfigures his own work—"Something Happened" might as easily have been titled "Mistakes Were Made," Ziegler's most memorable cop-out—and the consequence of this passivity is a sense of grievance.

    Major Minor Alec Solomita 2011

  • The result was the infamous checkerboard arrangement of section ownership that still disfigures maps of the west.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The result was the infamous checkerboard arrangement of section ownership that still disfigures maps of the west.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • And in another narration, "Whenever kindness is in a thing it adorns it, and whenever it is removed from anything, it disfigures it."

    Imam Khalid Latif: Reflecting On A Month Of Reflection Imam Khalid Latif 2011

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